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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1957.

Their TENTH Anniversary"

fight that he had practically

and the Sigginser rolsed their angst and a woman--the Duko glare that falls on royalty in a

font ils What was the Queen's answer matter how forecly glare the tih bride would ever be any IF the fates had gathered together to create a reason that. Charles

how diligently thing more than pleasant people joyful tenth wedding anniversary for Her head by the executioner's axe to these attacks on her husband? cameras or

abul that Charles I was su Sho went on Sunday

ACC newspapers strive to pierce tha of high position who would live Majesty the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Philip they

him play polo. The Peckenița curtain. But in Canada I saw happily butside the merelless no head to lose, could hardly have improved upon the superb

"Third time lucky sold the hands in holy horror. timing of this memorable event. And I use that people and rejoiced that t a long time before word "memorable" because our lives as a people would be

there would be another sover are interwoven with theirs.

cign on the Throne.

We only have to look bacit a few months to note how the gathering drama of this anni- versary was murked by what Shakespeare described ឥទ atarum, excursions and noises

and

As the years' went on a soc-" lon of the press decided that it was time the gosip wellem got to work on this marriage

By Sir Beverley Baxter

In English off. There was the eruption of some hours later, the pipsqueak peers, although and in equally fluent French, Lord Londonderry'a grand- the gave a performance that mother conked him on the head captured a continent. and saw to it that for him the

What had happened? In France rest was silence, Which left the the police always start out to feld to Lord Altrincham

rolva a mystery with "Cherchez Aug" I mily condense in femme With great respret 1

the ex- Malcolm Muggeridge,

Auggest that in this case we sub- citor of PUNCHI, to a monosyll-stitute for it "Cherchez homme", abic.

After the outbreak of the pip- How were these unfortunate squeak peers who won an hour's men to know that the Queen's immortality with their attack o visit to Canada and the United the Queen, I can well imagine States would be a conquest the Duke of Edinburgh saying: comparable in

Is no more than a guess, but the ancient ness to that of Caesars? Nor in writing these every moment that the Queen words do I merely ocho what was on view the Duke seemed has appeared in the press. I to be giving her confidence in was there when the great acro- herself. Never once did he try to Impress his own personally at plane touched down at Ottawa

the expense of his wife and his and the Queen net foot on the

Queen, yet never once did he soll of her senior Dominion.

look weary or disinterested.

ita

no

of Edinburgh and his Queen democratic state. who needed no acting, no Perhaps I can end this study gestures, and

admiring of the ten-year-old marriage of alances to prove that their the Queen and her royal hus- aficetion for each other is, deep band with the words spoken to painted me by an artist who and understandlug.

them both ou a commission from the Government of onc of the Dominions.

•

There were many men, who believed that when Edward VIII put aside his crown, and loved, that the days of royalty

"It was the greatest fun," she said. "They could not have been more delightful."

That is not a bad ending for. our story. Ten years have pass- In Britain were numbered, ed by since I heard the youth- There were come who point- ful voice of Princess Elizabeth ed out that the Duke of York, in marrying out of the canka of royally, had broken the codu laid down by the centuries.

whisper the marriage responses in the Abbey.

In August 1950, a baby which had come straight from chose exile with the woman he princess was born, and the old the falry books.

A wives nodded their, heuds.

The Duke and developed a beautiful Princess with a hand- some Prince for a husband and wandedust that took him away

almost and next n from his royal duties at home. then first a ren daughter! The whole thing was Not only eyebrows but voices a fairy tale set in that stolid old were raised. The nowspapers in un their zeal made much play of Victorion of fortens

known as the long absence abroad of the naglativeness

Duke not long ago. Why did he Buckingham Palace.

not fly home at once from Olbraltar when he reached the Rock on the return journey of But in the passing of time his long tour? This would have been arranged that the Queen It was quite true that he was

and he were to meet at Lisbon giving a magnificent leadership to the Playing Fields and start their Portuguese plate Association so that in the grim visit from there. In other words Britain they were to be re-united in 49 industriel lowns of there would still be a heritage hours at Lisbon. of grass to give the sanity and discipline of games to youth.

complete- "Let's knock 'em for six!" This the Duko came under criticism, been ridiculous since it had long well with the Pren of Wales goodwill.

Never in the history of con- quest was a victory so swift. This wife, this graceful young mother, this Queen, captureci the hearts of a continent in that moment

Nor do i write these words merely because it is traditional to pay compilments 20 royalty. Bring it down if you like to the terms of the theatre, but never saw a better performance in all the years that I was a London theatre dramatic' critic."

As the Queen inspected the mard she looked as young and fresh as a girl, and when two hours later she held a receplion at Government House her eyes were sparkling and she seemed Kenuinely interesied as each of us was presented to her. When my name was read out she said: "What in the world are you rofug here?" And she said it'as

If she were glad to see someone from those Houses of Parliament that squat upon the banks of the Thames.

But all this was nothing com- pared to her triumph on TV.

personal

to

also Not only that, he wp9 visiting factories arid doing

verything in his power

confidence be create mutual kween employers and workers,

21

Ten

they years ago

were married on November 20 the year 1947. She was

Ahi But he played polo on years of age and her royal hus- band, son of ills Royal Highness Sundays! A Scottish divine de Prince Andrew of Greece, was ounced him from the pulpit, wun in direct succes- Murmurs and mutterings "began 26. She

Why should this sion to the Throne as there was to be heard.

heir in the royal young man of high position set no mala formity, but the loyal and senti- euch a bad example to youth mental

British public cared that Britain would be destroyed nothing about that. Here was a like Sodom and Gomormh? lovely future young Queen to. give us another Elizabethan era, and here was a handsome young bridegroom straight out of the story books.

in

same

The marriage. took place November, and in the month a year inter À great crowd, mostly women, were waiting outside the gutes for the official announcement, Then came the shout: "It's a boy!"

then a girl.

This was the stuff to give the dear old public. Here was drama with an all star cast!

It is true that their ancestor., the Good Prince Albert, had set a standard, never likely to be equalled much less excelled, but the Duke of Edinburgh was a personality in his own right, despite his royal breeding.

success our young

it had not been so he would never have played such an im- portant role in the which has come to

The secrets of marriage are Queen.

known to only two people, to

Ten years have passed but the Duke hos lost none of his zent for a spirited horse or his Yet such is the adoptability interest in the playing leida. of the British character that the From every clime; from Institution of Monarchy woo valleys, und mountains, and strengthened, not weakened, by teeming eilles throughout the these events.

Commonwealth and Empire,

will come

messuges of

May the years head bring! anniversaries of

are one the many happy November 20 for their lives and our lives mighty family. of nailona over which the Queen rutes, and, in the process, tres careful heed of what her royal husband har to say.

I remember that scene to there attracting all eyes as he stood at man to his almost uncon sidered brother, and 1 remem ber the killed inagalficence of the bride's Scottish male re Tatives as if they had invaded and conquered the Sassenachs.

It did not seem then that the York and hh Scot- Duke of

"Six to one on the males" said

Sarah Rothschild

last

week, reporting on the balance of boys to girls at Oxford.

But Life is not so changed

THAT are the problems of a man going up to Oxford

W. University today? Are they no different from the

ones his father had to face some thirty years ago?

That is what everybody wanted, In all probability they are. For it is more than for it is an old ns. life fiself that likely that, to the father of the modern undergraduate, parents want first boy and the name Oxford meant no more than an institution When the baby was named which produced a rowing Eight to compete with Cam- course between Putney and Mortlake Charles there were some eye-bridge over a brows, rotsed

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